Sentience - Definition
sentience
n 1: state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness; "the
crash intruded on his awareness" [syn: awareness,
sentience]
2: the faculty through which the external world is apprehended;
"in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of
smell and hearing" [syn: sense, sensation, sentience,
sentiency, sensory faculty]
3: the readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or
undifferentiated consciousness; "gave sentience to slugs and
newts"- Richard Eberhart [ant: insentience]